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Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
Focus on the 50's - Sports and Games
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Focus on the 50's - People
50 Years of Painting
The following footage shows the artistic life of artist Lois Mailou Jones. There are several close-ups made of her, her work, her home and her working on paintings. Great art footage all around, especially African American art, or art from the perspective of an African American woman.
POP Goes the Country No 208
Promo for Pop Goes the Country No 208 Host Ralph Emory cuts a promo, jokes around with JOHNNY CASH ("Hello, I'm Johnny Cash") and JUNE CARTER CASH.
Waco Hearings - DAY 9
WACO HEARINGS: 10:00AM - - Master Number 11005 - INTRODUCTION: Footage of Master Number 11005 exists only on VHS format. No description has been made of this footage. Consult the Research Department for further information.
Focus on the 50's - Entertainment
Focus on the 50's - Entertainment
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
Focus on the 50's - Science and Technology
Focus on the 50's - Lifestyles
Focus on the 50's - Lifestyles
Focus on the 60s
Focus on the 60s - Lyndon Johnson is re-elected, initiates the Johnson Doctrine, thereby sending troops to quell Communist insurrection in the Dominican Republic and also escalating Vietnam conflict; the Tet Offensive; LBJ drops out of the presidential race after losing to Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary; the 1968 Democratic National Convention fiasco; Richard Nixon is elected President, reduces troop ceiling in Vietnam, promises peace.
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived
Focus on the 60s - How We Lived. The Vietnam war gets even more brutal; domestic distrubances in the United States; flare-up between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland; the Mylai massacre; Humphrey and Nixon camapign political TV ads.
To Paint My People
House in Kerteminde, on the Danish island of Funen, where William Johnson lived; zoom in to second floor window where he would paint.
Lion
177-1 DS 3 lion cubs sitting in grass 177-2 DS 3 lion cubs sitting in grass, 2 walk away, 1 remains 177-3 DS 1 lion cub sitting in grass 177-4 Lion cub or young lioness on veldt, to camera, wlaks out of frame 177-5 Airview - follow lion running on African Veldt 177-6 Lion sniffing lioness, walks over her, growls to camera 177-7 Lion sniffing lioness 177-8 Lion standing over lioness, walks around and in front of her 177-9 DS-lion walks over to lioness 177-10 Lion into frame walks to lioness, each walk off in different directions 177-11 Extreme DS lion walking away from camera, walks out of frame 177-12 Extreme DS lion standing in grass moving headback and forth 177-13 Lion to camera - turns - walks away. Turns walks back to camera 177-14 Lion to camera - turns - walks away 177-15 Lion to camera from bg walks to side, foreground, out of frame 177-16 Lion to foreground, walks out right side of frame 177-17 Lion from background jungle clearing to camera 177-18 Lion appears from background in jungle clearing, walks to and past camera 177-19 Lion jumps down, over and away from camera 177-20 Lion leaps down over and away from camera, turns and leaps back over camera 177-21 Lion runs across and out of frame 177-22 CU lion walks across frame Right to left 177-23 Lion on extreme right side of frame walks away from camera 177-24 MCU lion standing sideways in jungle clearing, turns, looks at camera 177-25 CU lion looking at camera 177-26 CU lion with carcassin mouth, walks and sits down to eat 177-27 DS MCU lioness eating, slow zoom, ends in ECU of scene 177-28 DS lioness on ground eating with lion in bg 177-29 DS to lioness on ground eating, lion - around, lays down, starts to eat 177-30 Lion in fg eating, lioness in bg ground level 177-31 DS lion and lioness on grass, both up and walk around each other, lioness away, lays back down on ground 177-35 Lioness eating zebra 177-36 Lion in jungle clearing 177-37 Lion jumps into camera 177-40 Lion jumps over camera
AIDS In Washington
DO NOT USE STILL PHOTOS This program is a historical documentary on how AIDS affected Washington D.C. in the early 1980s. The program consists primarily of headshot interviews with doctors researching the causes and affects of AIDS, AIDS patients and their councilors. There is also interesting footage of medical facilities manufacturing capsule drugs.
Waco Hearings - DAY 10
WACO HEARINGS: 9:55 - 10:58AM Master Number 11006: INTRODUCTION: The following footage of the Waco Hearings consists of Day #10 opening statements by ranking Representatives, in addition to, the opening statement of panelist Attorney General Janet Reno. 09:55:58 The Sub-Committee Chamber is shown in recess. 10:09:14 Chairman McCollum bring the hearings to order beginning Day #10. 10:09:30 Chairman McCollum begins his opening statement. 10:12:02 Congressman Zeliff begins his opening statement. 10:19:18 Congressman Schumer begins his opening statement. 10:59:50 Congresswoman Collins begins her opening statement. 10:36:43 Congressman Conyers begins his opening statement. 10:41:49 Congressman Schiff begins his opening statement. 10:43:52 Congressman Hyde begins his opening statement. 10:49:52 Chairman Zeliff swears in Attorney General Janet Reno. He then presents her introduction. 10:51:19 Attorney General Reno begins her opening statement. 10:57:55 TIME OUT.
Dominican Truce: Cease-Fire Brings Calm To Island
As United States Marine forces patrol the perimeter of the International national zone in Santo Domingo a five-man team from the Organization of American States successfully negotiates a precarious cease-fire. Wild fighting has ceased, but political maneuvering for power goes on. Death still stalks the streets of Santo Domingo. Two more Marines reported killed the day the truce went into effect. United States Marines on top and inside huge tanks, trucks and by foot carrying bazookas. American Marines come in driving and piled on of a very square and huge tank with their riffles in their hands. CUS A flat bed army truck with Marines sitting on the bed of the truck with watchful eyes and their riffles in their hands. A Marine dressed in his combat gear holding his bazooka, barrel pointed to the ground. LS Down a country road in Santo Domingo walking un-military like with their weapons. Military helicopter landing carrying supplies. LS - Looking across a grassy field, you see a military truck loaded with soldiers and off the right a corporate building of some sort. The five men from OAS who was responsible for bringing the wild fighting to a cease. American Marines sweep the street's of Santo Domingo looking for rebels. A soldier behind a concrete pillar for protection/cover from attack holding his riffle site to his eye and fires. A wounded American soldier laying on a cot looking at the camera man. MS - American Marines on guard looking for rebels in disguise.
The Preakness
The "second jewel" in the mythical Triple Crown..."The Preakness" sees nine thoroughbreds chasing "Flag Raiser" for six furlongs. Then, the pace-setter fades and "Tom Rofle" and "Dapper Dan" put on a stretch duel that has the crowd screaming. "Tom Rofle" cuts across the track next to "Dapper Dan" and a foul is claimed .. but disallowed, twenty minutes later, and the classy little horse goes to the winner's circle to eat the black-eyed Susan s. Next--Belmont. High Angle - Racing tracks clubhouse and throngs enjoying the day. CU - Racing crowd standing at the railed fence next to the racing track. MS - All the horses are in the racing gate, the bell sounds and their off... High Angle - 'Flag Raiser' takes the lead in the race and his jockey widens the gap by 5-lengths. The race's favorite 'Lucky Debonair' is running third. High Angle - 'Flag Raiser' in the lead and the other horses follow as they take the turn. CU - Photographer using a 35mm. camera with a tele-photo lens. CU - Racing fans in the stands with their heads all turned in the same direction. High Angle - Around the turn and into the stretch, 'Dapper Dan' takes over the lead. High Angle - The empty Winners Circle and a crowd of racing VIP's encompassing the circle. High Angle - Tom Rofle, 'Dapper Dan' winning jockey and race horse standing in the 'Winners Circle'.
Inspecting Turbine at Westinghouse Works
Master 1150 PART 2 A turbine is shown operating. Two men carrying clipboards walk up to it, check the running of various parts on it, and write down notes. A third man is seen walking through a few times, once stopping to look at one of the men's writings.
Testing Turbines at Westinghouse Works
Testing Turbines at Westinghouse Works. Hign ang. shot of 2 machines set up side by side both of which are being checked by workers. On the left of the screen, a small group of men lift the top off of what appears to be a turbine with a crane and continue to check the machine, tightening various parts with wrenches. On the right side, a few men appear to be testing the workings of another machine like this.
Tracking over Large and Busy Factory Floor
Master 1150 PART 2. Good traveling shot from camera on an overhead crane going down a large, long aisle in Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. Men are busy performing various tasks on machinery, probably generators; there are lots of large metal circular things. Other men (looks like both workers and managers) are walking down the aisle in all directions, and carts carrying items come and go. The film ends when the camera reaches the end of the aisle where windows and a large opening are. Rail tracks coming in through the opening are visible.
Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty A three-quarter front view of the Statue of Liberty on a rather hazy day. (The statue had been erected twelve years earlier, in 1886.)
Waco Hearings
WACO HEARINGS: 8:03 - 9:25PM
Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge
"Panorama Waterfront and Brooklyn Bridge from East River." Film of East River shoreline and the piers of lower Manhattan shot from a boat starting at about Pier 5 (the New York Central Pier) and going up to just south of the Brooklyn Bridge. The film begins at Pier 5, barges docked at and around Coenties Slip . We go past piers w/ various ships and boats incl. steam tugs, a wooden hull barkentine with box barges alongside, a docked iron hull sailing ship, an ocean steamer, a derrick lighter with stacked barrels docked at the end of a pier in FG, etc. In the Wall Street Ferry slip (between Piers 15 and 16) is a double-ended steam commuter boat (the ferry is just to left of row of billboards (illegible) on Pier 16. On front of Piers 16 & 17 "NY & Cuba Mail SS Co." and there is a steamship and quite a few other boats around them. The Mallory Line piers, with one of their steamers on the south side of one of the Mallory Piers. The camera begins panning to rt. out over the East River ; can see the fog bell at the end of pier 21 and pans along Brooklyn Bridge (built late 1880s)
Blackwell's Island (w/ NY's penal & charity institutions)
"Panorama of Blackwell's Island, N.Y." which was at the time the location for a whole bunch of places for warehousing "undesirables" of one sort or another - -criminals, the mentally ill, the indigent ill, poor people, etc. Film is shot from boat going along the eastern shore of Blackwell's Island (now Roosevelt Island). Small lighthouse at north end of island ("Hallet's Cove"). New York City Lunatic Asylum, the Workhouse, the Almshouse. Piers for the Queensboro or 59th Street Bridge, which is not yet built; beside it the Almshouse Keeper's House. Past the Penitentiary and finally Charity Hospital. The film ends before reaching the southern tip of the island.
Immigrants Landing at Ellis Island, 1903
Immigrants on steamboat ferry landing at Ellis Island. The film opens with a view of the steam ferryboat "William Myers," with passengers on 2 levels, approaching a dock at the Ellis Island Immigration Station. MLS w/ the vessel docked, workers move the gangway into place and the immigrant passengers are seen coming up the gangway and onto the dock, where they cross in front of the camera. The immigrants are of various nationalities and social classes, and there are quite a lot of families with children.